Hello I am Carlo for Italy, my first post in the Cubebrush forum!In the last days I was able to practice again with my favourite hobby starting again from the basics. Today I want show you my gesture drawing, 30 sec + 1 min.I will try to keep hard doing these dailyThanks in advanceCarlo

Hello all,afer one month I have to say that job and two small doughters do not currently allow me to apply daily on this... so the average time is few hours per week. Here some next attempt, I also looked in detail Proko, trying to work on same models he has in the course.Too low frequency to see any improvement... should i continue more and more on this or I can get distracted doing some other kind of esercises in parallel?

Hello again,I decided to keep the 1 min drawing to continue focus only on the gesture and the action lines.While I moved up from 2 to 3 minutes in order to build more shapes.I still feel unconfortable when doing the 2-3 minute drawing, but with 3 minutes I can do more ghost-soft lines before define the draw.

Please help me to see what I am doing wrong and on what I should focus more

I see progress in your gestures, and that really is the goal in this. It is a practice that is all about putting in the time and repeating the exercise so that you can see more and do more quickly.

People often talk about the gesture "communicating" the form and pose of the subject, with humans you can get a lot of that communication out of the angle of the hips and shoulders and the tilt of the head. The placement of the hands and feet is also useful, but it is largely defined by the placement of the hips and shoulders.

Showing what foot the weight of the body is on can easily convey where the person is going, or what they are doing. I can clearly see it in some of your recent gestures, and not so much in others. But of course you are working with images of models posing, and sometimes the model is just standing weird.

And if you just want them to immediately look more appealing, here is a great video about using line weight to communicate depth, the tricks are very straightforward and just make things look instantly better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0zl5NnEAyU

But keep in mind its all about the repetition, training your hand to do what you want, and understanding how things move.

And if you just want them to immediately look more appealing, here is a great video about using line weight to communicate depth, the tricks are very straightforward and just make things look instantly better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0zl5NnEAyU

Thanks I never considered possibility to use weighted lines in gesture drawing, will try to keep it in mind!